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Brace is not some miracle button.

If you are losing ground, brace won't stop you from destroying emplacement.
It will just make agony few secs longer.

Is there a counter play agasint retreat? No.
Retreat gives you bigger chances to survive, just like brace.

I guess you have exactly the same problem with retreat then?
After all, it unfairly makes opponent troops faster and hard to shoot at and therefore hard to kill.

You have no comprehension of why brace is there at all. I bet you never even played brits yourself to actually get a clue on what you're talking about.

Right, so I expect to see brace on the Pak 43 and OKW Flak next patch, along with both no longer being possible to decrew.



What's that? That would be horrible?

Huh. Who would have thought.



Look, I can understand why brace is there, but it's horribly implemented; and also unneeded. However, emplacements should be used ONLY when you know you can defend them well. If you get pushed out of the area of your emplacement, well, you lost that emplacement. It was like that in CoH1, it was like that in CoH2 (until UKF). Brace is just a 'padding' mechanic added to make emplacement use more forgiving - something that they REALLY don't need, considering their damage (especially against smaller OST squads).

How can I say that they don't need brace? Well, look at the Pak43 and OKW Flak - neither has ever had brace, and in fact, BOTH are decrewable. However, did anyone ever complain that they were incredibly OP? No, not really. Maybe one thread every few months back when the Pak43 could shoot through objects EVERY shot (but that was nerfed), but that's about it. The OKW Flak also never really gets talked about (although the 1-shot decrew should be looked at). Why is this? Because they are very high risk/reward units. If you place a Pak43 down in a good area, and defend it well, your AT 'power' goes up by an insane amount. However, if you get pushed back, even a little bit, that thing is getting decrewed if not destroyed pretty much immediately.

It works well. No idea why it's so impossible for other emplacements to work this way.

It shows up very early in the game; only costing 180/30 to reach the required tech, requiring 210mp unit to build it, and only costing 280/30. All in, you're only spending 670/60 from the start of the game to putting one down (obviously you would want other units as well).

It does insane damage; usually wiping 1 model per shot (if not 2). Since OST squads are 4 models, and the thing fires in bursts of (I think) around 8, it tends to insta-wipe any squads that get close to it.

It has an incredible amount of HP

It can't be decrewed

If it gets low on health, it can 'brace' (for free) and ignore almost all types of damage for 30 seconds

It's barrage ability (which is free) has more range than AT guns, and can easily destroy an AT gun in one barrage

Agree on all 3 points.

Mortar pits range can't be lowered without the leigs range being lowered as well, else brits won't have any dependable indirect to combat okw.

The mortar pit would still have its long-range attack when manually barraging; this would only lower the AUTO fire range. The mortar pit would still be able to target Liegs, you'd just need to do it manually (yes, actual micro).

but yet you still get outranged by most other tanks. LUL

Most?

Firefly, SU76/85, M36.... that's it.

Just the dedicated AT tanks, which are all glass cannons. That makes sense. The only tanks that both out-range AND out-tank a panther are more expensive doctrine based call-ins, which I would hope perform better.

Very funny poll. Would vote no if it was an option.

So I'm the only one who found inf crush to be an poorly implemented 'gimmick' that should in no way be treated as a core mechanic? Really?

Every alternative to simply removing crush nerfs the unit in question. Slower rotation means less maneuverability, which means a harder time escaping 'close call' situations. It also means (in theory) worse pathing, since poor pathing decisions requiring lots of turning would take longer.

Honestly, removing inf crush was one of the best decisions in the balance mod. It was poorly implemented, insanely inconsistent (sometimes the tank goes into a blob, spins, does nothing. Other times it wipes 3 squads), and frustrating to both use and play against. It negated cover use (crush cover AND the squads using it), messed with infantry pathing and control (squads between cover and a tank are uncontrollable), and in general made no sense at all (not a realistic use of a tank).

If tanks are now suddenly under performing, then guess what? BUFF THEM.

Also this means that the Opel Blitz won't accidentally crush friendly troops. Which made no sense.